Who is Jeff Bezos?

Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos will purchase The Washington Post and its affiliated publications for $250 million in cash. He ranks 11th on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest individuals in America with a net worth of about $25 billion. Here are some of his other business holdings and projects.

Correction: The amount that Bezos' parents loaned him to start Amazon.com in 1994 was originally misstated. It was $300,000.